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Shelter from the storm : upgrading housing infrastructure in Latin American slums

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul J.; Cooper, Ryan; … - 2014

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the...

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Another brick on the wall : on the effects of non-contributory pensions on material and subjective well being

Bando Grana, Rosangela; Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, … - 2021

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

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Understanding the growth of the middle class in Bolivia

Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; … - 2021

In this paper we aim to disentangle how sectoral economic growth affects the size of the middle class, using state-level data of Bolivia from 2000 to 2017 and breaking the three main economic activities into subsectors to attain more-specific results. Because the data from Bolivia are limited,...

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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development

Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015

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In search of larger per capita incomes : how to prioritize across productivity determinants?

Izquierdo, Alejandro; Llopis, Jimena; Muratori, Umberto; … - 2016

This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....

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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development

Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016

This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …

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Demographics in MENA countries : a major driver for economic growth

Forouheshfar, Yeganeh; Mekkaoui-de Freitas, Najat el-; … - 2019

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Air traffic and economic growth : the case of developing countries

Bourguignon, François; Darpeix, Pierre-Emmanuel - 2016

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Inclusive growth in India - learning from best practices of selected countries

Aggarwal, Suresh Chand; Satija, Divya; Khan, Shuheb - 2019

harmonise the national development priorities with international efforts and a number of policies, strategies, programmes … in achieving inclusive growth and sustainable development vis-a-vis 17 selected developed and developing countries …

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On the role of productivity and factor accumulation in economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Daude, Christian; Fernández Arias, Eduardo - 2010

This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region s development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …

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